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T. im s.. RUSH.

Patented March25,1873.

Buksnf Railrnad Fare Tickets.

UNITED STATES PATENT rErcE,

THOMAS A. JEBB AND LOUIS BRUSH, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK, ASSIGNORS TO THE AMERICAN DUPLEX-TICKET COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOOKS OF RAILROAD FARE-TICKETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 137,209, dated March 25, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, THOMAS A. JEBB and LoUIs BRUSH, both of the city of Buffalo, in the countyl of Erie and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Books of Railroad Fare-Tickets, of which the following is a specification:

Our improvements relate to books of faretickets for the use more especially of conductors and baggage-masters on railroads in the collection of cash fares and charges for excess baggage.

For a general description of these books and tickets, of the method of using them, and the advantages that result therefrom, reference is here made to Letters Patent ot' the `United States No. 131,276 and No. 131,687,

- a list of amounts of fare paid, arranged in a y singleorinduplicatecolumns. The two halves of the duplex tickets are printed in these respects in duplicate, while the books of single tickets have the lists of amounts paid printed on the stubs. The punch of each conductor using these kind of tickets makes its own peculiar-shaped perforation, so that the latter becomes in effect equivalent to the signature ot' the conductor, the perforation of any ticket being treated by the company as the signature of the conductor having the punch which makes the peculiar-shaped perforation shown in such ticket.

Books of both kinds of tickets are used for the same general purposes of preventing the fraudulent appropriation of fares by dishonest conductors, and to facilitate the making of correct returns by the conductors, and the keeping of correct accounts by the company with the conductors.

Onr'invention has for its object the more perfect accomplishment of the above-specified tached cover, punched, operates as a record ofthe transaction as between the ticket-agent and conductor; second, in such a book, the two covers carrying the data above referred to, whereby one punched and detached cover operates as a receipt therefor, while the attached cover, punched, when returned, operates as a balancing credit.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a book of tickets, showing an outer-face view of the front cover. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the book, showing the front cover detached. Fig. 3 is a view show'- lng the stubs after the front cover and tickets have been detached, and inner-face view ot' the back cover.

The drawing represents cash-fare passenger-tickets adapted for use between Rochester' and Niagara Falls on the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, which tickets are further designatedas Form 8, and are of substantially the same character as those described in said Letters Pate-nt N o. 131,276, and are designed to be used in the same gen eral and now well-known way.

The front and back covers are preferablyr and most conveniently printed with the same matter and type as the tickets themselves, ex cept that the covers are not numbered otherwise than with the number of the book.

Fig. 1 represents the front cover, with the date, January 4th, punched out, which indi cates that the book was delivered on that day to the conductor having a punch which makes the peculiar form of perforation shown in the cover. This cover being detached and left at the office, the book is in the shape shown in Fig. 2, and ready for convenient use, the first ticket being numbered 1. The tickets are required to be issued in the order of the numbers as theyare in the book, and when all are issued the stubs and cover, in the condition shown in Fig. 3, are to be returned to the ot'- fice of the company, and the date ot' such return punched out of the back cover, the drawin g indicating January 10th77 as the date of such return. The` dates of delivery and return being indicated in this manner on the book itself by the conductor or other person issuing; or using` the tickets, they cannot be the conductor; and to overcome any such objection I provide two covers to be used as described, so that the moment the book is delivered one cover punched is torn off and retained at the office as a receipt, while the other on the return of the book is punched, and

acts as a credit to the conductor.

It is manifest that our improvements are equally applicable to books of single tickets as to books of duplex tickets, und to books of tickets adapted for use on bridges, steamboats, 8m., as well as on railroads.

We claim as our invention- 1. In books of duplex railroad tickets, a cover having delineated upon it the book number and a system of dates, whereby a punch mark or marks will indicate the'time'of delivery or both the delivery and return, and the detached cover thus punched operates as a record of the transactions, as between the agent and conductor, substantially as hereinbefore set forth.

2. In such a book, the two covers carrying the data above set forth, whereby one punched and detached cover operates as a receipt therefor, and the other attached'cover as a credit for its return, substantially as hereinbefore set forth.

- 'I'. A. JEBB.

LOUIS BRUSH. Witnesses:

JAs. H. Ross,- WM. C. HUTOHINGS. 

